Education Ministry

Hürriyet Daily News' Dec. 15 front page could come as an oxymoron in terms of Turkey's relations with the European Union.

As can be expected the main story is on the reactivation of Turkey's accession talks with the EU, as negotiations on Chapter 17 on Economic and Monetary Policy officially opened yesterday after a five-year standstill in the membership process.

Thousands of teachers working in Turkey's southeastern provinces of Cizre and Silopi have started fleeing to their hometowns, less than 24 hours before the announcement of indeterminate curfews in the two towns.

Romania's National Ethics Council, an Education Ministry panel, is to analyse this week if Toba plagiarised material for his PhD thesis, after media reports alleged that he used papers posted on the internet without crediting their authors.

There is a four-year, single-party rule ahead of us. This election-free period presents very important opportunities. Turkey, in these four years, can achieve almost all of the reforms it has been seeking for many years. The responsibility is on the shoulders of the Justice and Development Party (AKP). 

More than 400,000 Syrian refugee children in Turkey are unable to attend school despite a Turkish government move allowing them access to the Turkish schooling system, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report.

Elementary school students in Turkey will be given the option to choose Arabic as a second language as of the 2016-2017 school year, in addition to the already offered English, French and German, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported Education Ministry officials as saying.

A former professor who said that girls neded only know "how to walk provocatively", has resigned as state secretary within the Education Ministry.

Vasile Salaru, 54, resigned on Thursday followed complaints from civic organisations who called Selaru's opinions sexist.

Almost 18 million students and 900,000 teachers, as well as more than 300,000 Syrian students, will start the first day of the academic year on Sept. 28.

The Israeli school year has begun, but thousands of children from the Arab minority who attend Christian schools are still on summer vacation because of a strike to protest cuts in government funding that critics say amount to discrimination.
     

The Greek high school on Turkey?s northwestern island of Gökçeada, which could not open in 2014 as its building was deemed physically unprepared by the Education Ministry, is set to open this year after a 40-year closure.